David Vojtuš

The meaning is in what is not visible. Not as something intangible, but rather as a kind of absence. So it is not about the traces that present something in the negative, but about what is visible, because it has not been here before (what shaped, shaped and showed the work). So the meaning is in the process. The work is meaning. In this case.
What do we see? Careful, even minutely ornamental treatment of surfaces, based on the removal of material—a kind of definitive closure of the movement of the hand, which has come to a halt within a delimited area, now already framed or set in place, firmly connected to something serially produced, to something that has already fulfilled its function, or will never fulfill it. Two types of surfaces that do not ask about depth. They simply present themselves. The emptiness that determines the result—at one time as individualizing absence, at another as mechanical repetition—is, upon closer examination of David Vojtuš’s contemporary artistic practice, a commentary on what an artwork can still be today, and at the same time on the conditions under which it can be nothing more than what it is.
Marek Pokorný (extract)

David Vojtuš (b. 1989, Ostrava) studied at University of Ostrava, lives and works in Ostrava. His work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at Václav Špála Gallery, Prague, CZ (2023), Třinec Gallery, CZ (2022), Pragovka Gallery, CZ (2020) among others.